English and Irish settlement on the River Amazon, 1550-1646 /

From as early as the middle of the sixteenth century Englishmen were interested in the possibility of exploring the fabled resources of the great river of the Amazons. During the first half of the seventeenth century English and Irish projectors made persistant efforts to maintain trading factories...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Hakluyt Society
Otros Autores: Lorimer, Joyce
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Hakluyt Society, 1989.
Colección:Works issued by the Hakluyt Society ; 2nd ser., no. 171.
Temas:
British > Brazil > History.
Irish > Brazil > History.
Britanniques > Brésil > Histoire.
Irlandais > Brésil > Histoire.
HISTORY > Latin America > South America.
British.
Discoveries in geography.
Irish.
Ansiedlung
Quelle
Siedlung
Briten
Engländer
Engelsen.
Ieren.
Nederzettingen.
Irlandais > Amazone (cours d'eau ; vallée de l') > histoire > 17e siècle.
Anglais > Brésil > Histoire.
Britanniques > Amazone (cours d'eau ; vallée de l') > histoire > 16e siècle.
Britanniques > Amazone (cours d'eau ; vallée de l') > histoire > 17e siècle.
Irlandais > Amazone (cours d'eau ; vallée de l') > histoire > 16e siècle.
Amazon River Valley > Discovery and exploration.
Brazil > Discovery and exploration.
Amazonie > Colonisation > Histoire.
Amazonie > Découverte et exploration irlandaises.
Amazonie > Découverte et exploration britanniques.
Amazonie > Histoire > Sources.
Amazon River Valley.
Brazil.
Amazonas
Amazonastiefland
England
Brésil > Découverte et exploration britanniques.
Briten.
Engländer.
Brazil > Amazon River Basin > Settlement by English immigrants & Irish immigrants, 1549-1822
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introductions and Texts: Earliest English explorations of the Amazon, 1553-1608
  • The first English and Irish settlements on the Amazon, 1611-20
  • The formation and collapse of the Amazon Company, 1619-21
  • The abandoned English and Irish colonists, 1620-5; first struggles with the Portuguese
  • The creation of the Guiana Compnay, 1626-7
  • The 'Old' Irish planters go out to the Amazon for the Dutch West India Company, 1629
  • The difficulties of the Guiana Company's new colony, 1628-31
  • The last English settlements on the Amazon, 1630-3
  • The Irish petition the Spanish crown for a licence to settle the Amazon, 1631-6
  • Last English and Irish efforts to return to the Amazon: approaches to the restored Portuguese monarchy.

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